The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantzpage 1 of 308 (00%)

THE WARD OF KING CANUTEA Romance of the Danish Conquest

by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

Acknowledgment

For the facts of this romance I have made free use of the followingauthorities: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; The Venerable Bede's EcclesiasticalHistory of England; Ingulph's History of the Abbey of Croyland; William ofMalmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England; The Chronicles of Florence ofWorcester; Lingard's History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, andLingard's History of England; Dean Spencer's The White Robe of Churches;Collier's Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain; Montalembert's Monks of theWest; Thrupp's Anglo-Saxon Home; Hall's Queens Before the Conquest; Kemble'sSaxons in England; Ridgway's Gem of Thorney Island; Brayley and Britton'sHistory of the Ancient Palace and Late Houses of Parliament; Loftie'sWestminster Abbey and Loftie's History of London; Allen's History andAntiquities of London; Lappenberg's History of England Under the Anglo-SaxonKings; Sharon Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons; Knight's Old England;Hume's History of England; Green's Conquest of England; Thierry's History ofthe Conquest of England by the Normans; Freeman's History of the NormanConquest.

For the translations of Ha'vama'l, etc., used at the beginnings of thechapters, I am indebted to Professor Rasmus B. Anderson and Mr. Paul du